Christianity teaches that if someone claims to "be saved," but never stops
blatantly sinning, then they probably did not truly repent and weren't really born again
(i.e., often said of homosexuals). It also teaches that even if you "sincerely"
follow incorrect doctrine regarding salvation, you aren't saved (i.e., often said of
Mormons).

Yeshua warned that we will be judged by the same measure we judge by. Therefore, when a
Christian judges a Mormon, or a homosexual, or anyone for that matter, using the unified
Word of God (the Torah), he had better be ready to be judged by the same Torah.

Keeping this Biblical principle in mind, The Torah shows that God's position on the
Sabbath is clear. It is Friday evening to Saturday evening and we are to set it aside for
Him as a Holy Day. History shows that man changed this out of disrespect for Judaism and
Torah. Christians don't bother to learn this history (or don't care) accepting the lie
that God changed this. As a result, they violate God's Sabbath every weekend, while
carrying His Torah in their Bibles on their way into "Sunday church
services" that preach "freedom FROM the Torah."

According to Paul in Romans 8:5-8, if you consider yourself to be "of the
Spirit," you ARE subject to the Torah of God.

Another ancient Jewish teaching, regarding respect for the poor, is that material
success often comes at the cost of spiritual failure. This is reflected in the saying,"Be careful with the poor, for, from them Torah
comes out" (Talmud, Nedarim 81a). This teaching mirrors that of Yeshua in
Matthew 19:23-24, where He expresses the difficulties that the wealthy have in finding the
kingdom of God.

The Shema, Spirituality and Law in Judaism, Norman Lamm, The
Jewish Publication Society, Jerusalem, 1998, p.16

Interestingly, the commentary of the Midrash Rabbah, on the first verse of the
Bible (Genesis 1:1) has the Torah referring to itself as a tutor at the
time of creation!

In order to retain the parts of the Torah it claims remain valid for believers (i.e.,
adultery, covetousness, homosexuality) Christianity divides the Torah into separate moral,
ceremonial, civil, and/or other "sections." However, no such strict division has
existed in Judaism, nor in the minds of the authors of the "New Testament." This
can be seen in the epistle of "James" (2:8-11), where he says all the Torah is
one, as well as Paul's writings, such as Galatians 5:19, where he lists things like
"uncleaness" ("ceremonial law") in the same sentence as adultery
("moral law") and murder ("civil law") and of course Yeshua, in
Matthew 5:17-21.

A book that addresses this subject in detail is From Sabbath to Sunday (Samuele
Bacchiocchi, 1977, The Pontifical Gregorian University Press, Rome). Bacchiocchi's
research shows how the movement away from the Sabbath and other biblical feasts was
prompted by the anti-Semitism of the early "Church fathers." Among other issues,
Bacchiocchi specifically refutes the idea that, 1 Corinthians 16;1-2, Acts 20:7-11 and
Revelation 1:10, offer any "proof" for the argument that God switched from
Saturday Sabbath to the Christian Sunday (pp. 90-131).

Even the term "Christian," as seen in this verse, may be a
mistranslation. There is evidence that this was a later entry to the Bible as early
manuscripts have the term "almsgiver" (rather than
"Christian"). This would make it a Jewish slur as that was a Jewish term and
practice. The latter would make sense as it would indicate that Gentiles "had become
like Jews" in their new faith. For a Roman Gentile to become like a Jew was
considered a disgrace.

The Mystery of Romans, Mark Nanos, 1996, Fortress Press, Minneapolis, pp.
64-68. Julius Caesar had respect for ancient religions and granted the Jews legal
privileges as collegia, giving them the right to assemble, have common meals and
property, govern and tax themselves, and enforce their own discipline. They were the only
non-pagan religious group to have this right. This led to much resentment from the rest of
the Roman population. This also explains such occurrences as Paul being able to persecute
Jewish believers (before his conversion) as mentioned in the book of Acts, and the right
of the Synagogue to later discipline Paul, as he mentions in his epistles. The latter also
shows that Paul kept himself under the authority of the Synagogue. According to Roman law,
he could have used his Roman citizenship to stop this discipline but, according to Jewish
law, he then would have forfeited his right to speak and teach in the Synagogue on the
Sabbath. Although Paul is commonly known as "the apostle to the Gentiles," even
this ministry was for the benefit of Israel (Romans 11:13). See also, Romans - A
Shorter Commentary, C.E.B. Cranfield, 1985, William B. Eerdmans publishing Company,
Grand Rapids, MI, pp. 275-276.

James the Brother of Jesus, Robert Eisenman, 1997, Penguin Books, New York, NY.

Ignatius' Letter to the Magnesians

Caesar and Christ, Will Durant, 1944, Simon and Schuster, New York, p. 548.

Paul and the Jewish Law - Halakha in the Letters of the Apostle to the Gentiles, Peter
J. Tomson, 1990, Fortress Press, Minneapolis, p. 3.

Martin Luther called for persecution of Jews, including; burning their synagogues to the
ground, destroying their homes, confiscating their Talmuds and prayer books, killing their
rabbis who refused to stop teaching, revoking their right to travel, and putting them in
concentration camps. Hitler followed Luther's recommendations quite well. See Anti-Semitism
of the "Church Fathers," at www.yashanet.com/library/fathers.htm.and,
Why the Protestant Reformation Failed!, at: www.yashanet.com/library/reformf.htm.

The Way of the Boundary Crosser, Gershon Winkler, 1998, Jason
Aronson Inc., Jerusalem, pp. 221-251. The examples shown in this table and the next, are
only a portion of those given by Winkler, who shows Yeshua's teachings to be very much in
line with Talmud, Midrash Rabbah, and other ancient Jewish writings. It is rather
ironic that a liberal Reformed Jewish author (Winkler) has done such a thorough job of
revealing the truth of what Yeshua taught.

See The Mystery of Romans, Mark Nanos, 1996, Fortress Press, Minneapolis.
Nanos' award winning book (National Jewish Book Award for Jewish-Christian Relations),
offers historical insight into the background of Paul's letter not found in any previous
work. In it he reveals Paul's concern over the conduct of the Gentiles within the Roman
congregation, with respect to them modifying their behavior in order not to offend unsaved
Jews who were amidst them in their fellowship, which was still conducted under Synagogue
authority.

It may be hard for the western mind to comprehend how Paul could be accused by other
Jews, of teaching against the Torah, when he was preaching a pro-Torah message. However,
this was not the only time in Jewish history that a great teacher was thus misrepresented.
Moses Maimonides (1135-1204 CE), one of the most famous Jewish thinkers and Torah scholar
of all time, was accused by his Jewish contemporaries as denying bodily resurrection. They
made this claim even though Maimonides had written in his commentary on the Mishnah,
Sanhedrin 10:1, that, "Bodily resurrection is one of the fundamentals of the Law
of Moses; one who does not accept [resurrection] has no part in the religion, nor any
connection to the Jewish people." Maimonides admits he didn't think anyone would
take the source of such false teaching and accusation seriously, stating, "...we
paid no attention thereto, saying that this individual's (opinion) is of no consequence,
because no one can be so foolish as to find it so difficult to understand what we wrote
(clearly in our composition). Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Resurrection, translated and
annotated by Fred Rosner, 1997, Jason Aronson Inc., Northval, NJ, foreward to the Second
Edition, p. ix, 29-31. Paul too, was shocked to hear that he was being accused of
preaching against the truth of Torah, as seen by his comments in Romans 3:8. Peter, in his
epistle, also warned, that people were twisting Paul's words around. One has to wonder
what Paul will one day have to say of churches who teach that he thought Torah was not to
be followed by believers in Yeshua!

"Memra" is an Aramaic term for "the Word" and is
found in the Aramaic Targums read in the Synagogues each Sabbath at the time of
Yeshua. "Memra" appears in the Targums whenever a verse contains a double
reference to YHVH, i.e. Psalm 110:1, where the "second YHVH" is called the Memra
of God. Also in Genesis where Abraham prayed to YHVH in the name of the Memra of YHVH.

Vine's Expository Dictionary, a classic Protestant reference work, agrees that telos
should not be translated as "end" in Romans 10:4, but rather as "the
result of a state or process" (a goal). See also the, Jewish New Testament
Commentary, David Stern, (Jewish New Testament Publication, Inc., 4th edition, 1995),
commentary on Romans 10:4. Interstingly, the Christian work quoted in this document, The
Unity of the Bible, (Daniel P. Fuller, 1992, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids
MI), also agrees with translating "telos" as "goal," but still arrives
at typically Christian conclusions.

In August, 1999, a controversy arose over the Internet Search engine Lycos,
refusing to run advertisements from Jews for Jesus, due to the expressed outrage
of the Jewish community. News articles with the details of this story may still be found
on the Web, by searching keywords "Jews for Jesus" and "Lycos."

The Gospel of "James" stresses this point throughout, but particularly in
2:19, where he says that "believing" in God is meaningless if void of a trusting
relationship grounded in the works of the Torah.

The same Greek term for lawlessness, anomia, is used in 1 John 3:4, to describe
those who commit sin, as well as 2 Thessalonians 2:7, to describe the anti-Messiah who is
opposed to God's truth.

The Unity of the Bible, Daniel P. Fuller, 1992, Zondervan Publishing House,
Grand Rapids MI, p. 53. As another example of out-of-context interpretation, Fuller also
states (p. 357) that Mark 7:19 shows Yeshua declaring all meats to be clean, ignoring the
context of the discussion (established in 7:2-5) which is entirely about the non-Biblical
command some Pharisees had added of eating (clean) meats with unwashed hands, a practice
which has its origins in the Zohar, the more mystical part of Judaism. See also; Introduction
to the Talmud, by Harris Brody, Section 10, at www.yashanet.com/library/talmud.htm.

See The Mystery of Romans, Mark Nanos, 1996, Fortress Press, Minneapolis, pp.
337-371, for a comprehensive discussion of these verses.

Rabbi Tovia Singer (Jews for Judaism, Outreach Judaism) has made the comment that more
Jews have come to believe Jesus is the Messiah in the past 19 years than in the past 1900
years. The origins of the modern Messianic movement can be shown to coincide with the
return of Jerusalem to Jewish hands in 1967. The number of Messianic congregations has
increased exponentially in the past three decades (a true "end time revival" of
God that Christianity is generally unaware of, or unconcerned with.) The later 1990's have
seen a trend toward greater Torah observance among both Jewish and gentile Messianic
believers. A global listing of Messianic congregations is kept at www.yashanet.com.

A recently published book that deals with some of the essentials of the
Shema and offers a well-rounded view of Jewish thought in this matter is; The Shema,
Spirituality and Law in Judaism, by Orthodox scholar and Yeshiva University
president, Norman Lamm (The Jewish Publication Society, Jerusalem, 1998.)